I’m not a believer of luck. I think opportunity and hard work becomes luck.
The dog can only become what’s in your bubble. The dog is imitating the energy that is in your bubble. You are the source, the feast of energy. If you feel anxious, the dog becomes anxious with you. If you become nervous, the dog wakes up nervous with you.
The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence.
In our development, as we grow throughout our lives, the structure of our beliefs becomes very complicated, and we make it even more complicated because we make the assumption that what we believe is the absolute truth.
When people protest and are upset with a movie, it becomes a big hit. They hated Passion of The Christ, it worked out pretty well for the box office. So let’s get that going.
One’s mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
Modern design becomes the eye catcher because it’s out of context, it is something newborn and fresh, something people have never seen before. I mean, that in itself is the way we should sort of stimulate the senses of society, this urban condition.
Narrative becomes the way you make sense of chaos. That’s how you focus the world. It’s the only reason you should ever try this writing job.
With each passing decade, history becomes less real for us, less immediate and essential to our way of life, and so, like ‘green’ nature, more of a commodity or an advertising gimmick.
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.
The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left’s on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet.
Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.
Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets.
Larger-than-life roles have never excited me. I’d rather play someone real who goes through obstacles and becomes a hero.
The more I compose, the more I know that I don’t know it all. I think it’s a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you’ve already done. I try to make sure that I don’t repeat my music.
Escapism always has its place, but when movies connect to other things around us and suggest implications that haven’t been considered before, that’s a dividend, too, even when our love of movies becomes complicated as a result.
When you increase productivity, economies become better – local economies become better, society becomes better.
I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect – it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.
When I’m not supposed to do something, it becomes more attractive to me.
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
To live by one man’s will becomes the cause of all misery.
Limited points of view let the writer dispense – and the reader gather – information from various corners of the story. It all becomes a kind of dance, with the writer guiding the reader through the various twists and turns. The challenge is keeping readers in step, while still managing to surprise.
Love at first sight is easy to understand; it’s when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.
When the written and spoken word is censored, the urban landscape becomes a nation’s only physical link to the past.
I believe no chef becomes what he becomes without having many people influence him.
Personally, I feel that if you shoot off 200,000 rounds, and your lead character pulls out a pistol and never gets hit, there’s a sense of jeopardy that’s lost. It becomes a little less exciting when things don’t make sense.
It becomes very easy as an actor to immerse yourself when you’re in the real places.
Thoughts are fine when you don’t confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.
Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity.
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
Enthusiasm is not the same as just being excited. One gets excited about going on a roller coaster. One becomes enthusiastic about creating and building a roller coaster.
The difference between political terror and ordinary crime becomes clear during the change of regimes, in which former terrorists become well-regarded representatives of their country.
I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.
Sometimes you become a character, and sometimes the character becomes you.
Our nation’s vital infrastructure – such as power grids and transportation hubs – becomes more vulnerable when individual devices get hacked. Criminals and terrorists who want to infiltrate systems and disrupt sensitive networks may start their attacks through access to just one person’s smartphone.
When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power.
The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.
Prayer becomes more meaningful as we counsel with the Lord in all of our doings, as we express heartfelt gratitude, and as we pray for others.
India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country.
Just sharing music with each other – that’s cool. It’s the selling that becomes the problem.
A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.
No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn’t yours and, actually, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words.
Each player becomes the best in the world in their own time.
The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that’s what’s happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.
If you want to cultivate a habit, do it without any reservation, till it is firmly established. Until it is so confirmed, until it becomes a part of your character, let there be no exception, no relaxation of effort.
As advertising blather becomes the nation’s normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.
As you deal with more and more complex systems, it becomes harder and harder to find deep and interesting properties.
Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.
Socialism and Communism are extremely attractive to a superficial observer. It is not until you get into the details, or actually experience it, that it becomes apparent that it does not work.
In the works of Duchamp, space begins to walk and take on form; it becomes a machine that spins arguments and philosophizes; it resists movement with delay and delay with irony.
The reason Buddhism can be so naturalised is because, stripped of its supernatural elements, its core teachings can be giving a sound, secular philosophical interpretation. In other words, it becomes a religion acceptable to the contemporary, naturalistic mind only when it ceases to be a religion.
I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.
The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.
An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.
When you go on a road trip, the trip itself becomes part of the story.
If you throw money around like confetti, it just becomes shallow and meaningless.
Data is powerful and if it’s put in the wrong hands, it becomes a weapon. And we have to understand that companies like Facebook, and platforms like Facebook or Twitter, are not just social networking sites. They’re opportunities for information warfare.
